kick up your heels

kick up your heels
   If you kick up your heels, you go to parties or celebrate something.
  (Dorking School Dictionary)

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  • kick up your heels — see ↑kick, 1 • • • Main Entry: ↑heel kick up your heels US informal : to relax and enjoy yourself : to have a good and lively time After exams were over, the students had a little time to kick up their heels. • • • Main Entry: ↑kick …   Useful english dictionary

  • kick up your heels — (USA) If you kick up your heels, you go to parties or celebrate something …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • kick up your heels — kick up (your) heels American & Australian to do things that you enjoy. After the exams, we kicked up our heels and had a really good party …   New idioms dictionary

  • kick up your heels — celebrate, go to parties, have fun    After you ve written your exams you can kick up your heels …   English idioms

  • kick your heels — british phrase to waste time waiting for someone or something They were forced to kick their heels for nearly a quarter of an hour. Thesaurus: to waste time, or to pass time doing unimportant thingssynonym to delay action, wait or hesitatesynonym …   Useful english dictionary

  • kick your heels — (UK) If you have to kick your heels, you are forced to wait for the result or outcome of something …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • kick your heels — kick (your) heels British to be forced to wait for a period of time. I m fed up kicking my heels at home while all my friends are out enjoying themselves. (usually in continuous tenses) …   New idioms dictionary

  • kick your heels — British to waste time waiting for someone or something They were forced to kick their heels for nearly a quarter of an hour …   English dictionary

  • kick up heels — kick up (your) heels American & Australian to do things that you enjoy. After the exams, we kicked up our heels and had a really good party …   New idioms dictionary

  • kick — kick1 W3S2 [kık] v [I and T] 1.) to hit something with your foot kick sth down/over/around etc ▪ Billy was kicking a ball around the yard. ▪ The police kicked the door down. kick sb in the stomach/face/shin etc ▪ There was a scuffle and he kicked …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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